A jury in a court in San Diego, California, ruled last week that the Cupertino company must pay Canadian company WiLan a total of $85 million for patent infringement. The agency reported this at the end of the week. BloombergThis is a reopened case from last year, where WiLan was to obtain from the jury a decision AppThe lawsuit was filed for $145 million, but a new trial was held to reassess the amount of damages. The subject of the dispute is a pair of patents describing the possibility of making phone calls and downloading data simultaneously.
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One of the patents talks about "bandwidth control in a wireless network", the other about "adaptive control of access to calls through wireless communication systems". The company WiLan filed on Apple filed a lawsuit in 2013, but it was unsuccessful and the court awarded a large sum of money.onec won the Cupertino giant. WiLan was founded in 1992 with the aim of developing wireless technologies. But in 2006, the company changed its business strategy and became a patent owner. WiLan describes itself as “one of the world’s most successful patent licensing companies.” Its goal, according to its management, is to “help companies unlock the value of their intellectual property through the management and licensing of patent portfolios.”
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WiLan is fighting a legal battle with Applem for almost ten years, and mostly unsuccessfully. He is asking the Cupertino giant for amounts based on iPhone sales, Apple but defends itself by claiming that WiLan did not provide the court with sufficient evidence to prove the validity of the lawsuit. Judge Dana Sabraw gave during last year's trial Applu was correct and confirmed that WiLan had used an incorrect method to calculate the amount owed. WiLan was then given the choice of accepting the $10 million payment or a new trial, and chose the latter. According to the agency Bloomberg Patent licensing accounts for more than half of the $107,6 million in sales generated by Quarterhill, which owns WiLan, in the first nine months.
